Joey Belle has nothing on this guy.....

BATAVIA, Ohio (April 27) -- A jury convicted a man of murder for shooting a teenage neighbor who walked on his obsessively maintained lawn.

The jury in southern Ohio deliberated less than four hours Thursday before finding Charles Martin , 67, guilty of murder. Martin was tried on a charge of aggravated murder, but jurors convicted him on the lesser count of murder because they could not agree the killing was planned.

The defense did not dispute that Martin shot 15-year-old Larry Mugrage Jr. after he stepped on the lawn Martin meticulously cared for, mowing it as many as five times a week.

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The kid was shot twice by a shotgun. How could it not have been premeditated?

 

Is it good for your lawn to mow it five times a week?

 

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Charles Martin will get his ass mowed in prison about five times a week.

 

Even if it was, it wouldn't be worth it.

 

Greens at a golf course are mowed every day. As long as you don't scalp it, it's ok.

 

Wherever he is -- and I'm sure it's thousands of miles from Batavia, Ohio -- Kevin Brown is laughing.

 

How would shooting twice indicate premeditation?

(sorry I'm late to this one. Catching up on this weekend's SportsJournalists.com action right now.)

 

it's not tough to see the argument the man's defense lawyer used: my guy was enraged, this poor victim set him into a frenzy, which isn't an excuse and we don't really expect an acquittal but it wasn't premeditated so please spare my client the death penalty.

too bad. i think if we have the death penalty it's made for cases like this where lack of coherent thought by a seemingly intelligent and normal person causes the death of another.

 

I bet that lawn of his is full of weeds right now.

 

Someone should take pictures of it and send them to him in prison periodically.

 

Guy kills himself in prison:

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